Table of Contents

Introduction: American Encounters with India in the Age of Sail; Pioneering the India Trade; Bridging the Divide; Benjamin Carpenter, Master Mariner; From the Journal of the Ruby; Halcyon Days of Neutral Trade; Heyday of the India Trade; Encounter with the East; From the Journal of the Belisarius; From the Journal of the Derby; Transformations & New Encounters; Transitions; William Augustus Rogers, Republican, Lawyer & Merchant; From the Journal of the Tartar; The Doldrums; Decline of the Trade; James B Briggs, Commander; From the Journal of the Apthorp; Revival; Gruff Goods, Transcendentalism, & the Bhagavad Gita; Edwin Blood, Supercargo's Clerk; From the Journal of the Rockall; Epilogue: First Impressions; Index.

About the Author

Susan S Bean is Curator of South Asian and Korean Art and Culture at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts. Dr Bean specialises in the visual arts and cultural history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Asia. Dr Bean received her doctorate in anthropology from Columbia University, and has taught at Yale, Columbia, and Brown Universities, and Wellesley College.

Reviews

"Yankee India is Susan Bean's readable, scholarly and visually opulent study of material and cultural exchange. Bean presents a beautifully illustrated story of America's commerce" with the subcontinent after independence from Britain in 1783." -- The Telegraph"